Mike smiled down at the wolf in the bathroom. His son had turned out better than his brother John had explained. “Luke, you in there? Or were John right and you can´t understand me anymore? If you do, lift your right fore-paw.”
Luke looked at the person in front of him. He couldn´t understand what was said anymore. He also didn´t recognize the man who spoke. “But I´m at home, so that can normally only be my father or my brother, so why does this human seem unfamiliar?” He couldn´t understand that either.
Mike saw the mostly blank look on the wolfs face. As he didn´t raised his paw, he was sure Luke didn´t understand him anymore. He started to grin at Luke. The latex that had changed him had receded into a collar around Luke´s neck. As Mike had brought the leach John had given him before, he attached it to the collar and pulled a bit.
Luke was shocked to notice he was collared, and this unknown man had just put a leach on him. Now he was being pulled out of the bathroom he had been in. He was still struggling with everything going on around him.
Mike moved over to Luke´s former room. At the bottom of the box the paws had been was a hidden little bottle, which John had explained he would need to make Luke obedient. Luke had been a bit to rebellious against him, other than his younger brother Kevin, who had been an exemplary good son. As a reward, Mike had decided to allow Kevin his biggest wish to get a pet.
As John heard about this all, he suggested making Luke said pet, as it would help them all. And now Luke was a wolf in body, with no way to understand them. John´s short explanation had been simple. Luke get´s his present, and John was sure Luke would be compelled to try it out. When he did so, the present would act as the initiator of the change into an animal.
When the changes had finished, Luke would be a latex-covered animal, with no understanding off human speech anymore. He wouldn´t be able to recognize anyone also, but would be harmless at the beginning. After the changes are finished, he would need to give him a bath, so that the latex could recede into a collar for him. Luckily, Luke had thought a shower would help him, therefore did make the bathing unnecessary.
The bottle he now had was a drug, which would make the animal drinking it obedient to the first person he saw afterwards. If given more than one time, it worked on multiple people, so he would need to give Luke two doses, one for himself and one for Kevin. It would also give Luke back his understanding of said persons voice, so he could follow orders from them.
The first person, however, was who the animal would see as most important and be most obedient to, so Mike called for Kevin to come over.
“What is it?” asked Kevin as he came over. When he spotted Luke, he started to grin broadly. “Did it work? Is that Luke?” His father smiled. “Yes, it worked. This is your brother, or better, your new pet. But we need to give him the drug, and as he will be your dog, he needs to see you first after drinking it.” His father explained.
And so, Mike took a tight hold of Luke, while Kevin gave him the drug first. “What are they doing to me, stop” Luke barked, only for the drug to take effect. The person in front of him got clearer to him in a way, even if he still couldn´t recognize them. “What is master doing?” went through his head then. He recoiled a bit at thinking of that person as his master, but instincts took over and he licked his master´s hand.
Then Mike let go off Luke and got in front of him instead. Kevin looked at Luke and said: “Drink this, boy.” Luke was overjoyed to understand something, even if it was an order. He barked happily before he felt the need to obey his master. He drunk the drug again, and Kevin stepped aside for Mike to take his place. Soon Luke saw him as his second master.
After giving him the drug, Mike and Kevin moved to have breakfast, and Luke was told to wait and get his food after they had eaten. Luke laid down obediently on the tiles of the kitchen and waited, pondering what was going on. What would he do, and why was he compelled to see these two people as his masters? He got some canned dog-food set I front of him, which he didn´t want to eat. But Kevin gave him the permission with saying: “Eat up, boy”, and Luke obediently started to eat it.
Soon the bowl was empty and licked clean, and they went into the garden to train Luke a bit. Over the next hour Luke learned to heel, lay down or sit, play dead or roll around on both verbal commands and hand signs. Then he was rewarded by being played fetch with, until Luke was tired from it. As Kevin noticed that Luke got slower, they decided on showing Luke his new home, a doghouse to the side of their terrace, and minutes later Luke was asleep.
The whole time Luke had tried to understand his situation. Whoever his masters were, to them he was nothing but a dog, that he was sure off, now. As his senses had changed, he didn´t fully recognize his own house anymore, everything was strange and new to him. And as he laid down to sleep by his new doghouse, Luke didn´t know what would happen with him in the future.